2011/6/24 Derick Winkworth <[email protected]> > 1. Yes there are studies and comparisons. They are usually skewed/biased > favorably towards the company that is paying to have the study/comparison > done. >
Agree, I don't think any of the neutral parties care about vendor selection. They are more concerned with the technologies themselves for the most part. > 2. Juniper/Alcatel-Lucent I think today are the primary competing vendors > you want to look at. > Agree. > 3. Tackling the service-provider problem is different than the enterprise > problem. There is a reason why other vendors have had success in this > space. Sometimes they really do make better products for the > application/deployment scenario in question. > In practice I don't think I've ever seen a completely homogenous network. I think anyone designing a SP style network of significant size should at least consider a multi-vendor solution. Each vendor has it's strengths and weaknesses. There's also the difference in price to consider. I think that the popularity of cisco and their various products is a bit of a hinderance to progress. > > > --- On Thu, 6/23/11, ar <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: ar <[email protected]> > Subject: [c-nsp] Service Provider Networks: Cisco vs XYZ > To: "cisco-nsp" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 10:37 PM > > Hi Peeps. > > I am pro-Cisco on building IP/MPLS service provider networks. I've proven > its capabilities. > > However, does anyone has a study/comparison or testing with other brands? > Brocade,Huawei,Juniper,HP? > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
